A World of Beauty Behind Me
Language: en
Mike Maxwell was famously devoted to his wife, a fact well-known in their circle. For me, he’d turned down a family-arranged marriage and doted on me for three years straight. But then, at his bachelor party, just before our wedding, his first love, the one who got away, asked him, “If I crashed your wedding and asked you to leave with me, would you?” And he, utterly serious, replied, “Yes.” Swallowing my tears, I messaged my best friend, Lexie Thorne, a billionaire heiress. “Can you get me out of here, like, now?” Seven minutes later, Lexie’s car screeched to a halt, tires practically…